Thalyrielle - The Unicorn

Role in Its Society:

Unicorns are rare and revered, often protectors of sacred groves or symbols of the untouched wild. But Thalyrielle is no mere protector — she is a manifestation of the First Spring, a dream left behind by the gods when Gaiathrae was young.

She is drawn not to battles or to evil, but to grief, particularly where innocence has been lost or corrupted. Her role is not to fight, but to remind — of what was, of what could be again, and of what must be mourned.

In some circles of eladrin, druids, and old-souled fey, she is whispered of as the Mourning Horn, a presence that signals both healing and goodbye.

Appearance Description:

Thalyrielle’s body gleams like polished pearl, her muscles flowing like moonlight over fresh water. Her mane cascades in curls of liquid silver, woven through with blooming lavender and indigo blossoms that grow and fall away with her breath. Her horn — long, spiraled, and kissed with opalescent hue — shimmers with shifting hues, like starlight glimpsed through tears.

She walks with impossible grace, disturbing neither flower nor dew beneath her steps. The air around her is always still, filled with a faint fragrance of old roses and earth after rain.

Backstory:

Thalyrielle is said to have first emerged at the edge of the Duskhaven woodlands, where the veil between dreams and memory grows thin. Some believe she is not native to this plane at all, but a celestial echo of the world’s creation, sent to walk when sorrow threatens to unmake the wild.

She has appeared at the deaths of forest gods, at the cradles of dying fey queens, and once — only once — at a battlefield, not to save the wounded, but to kneel beside a dying child-king who still held hope in his eyes.

No one has ever ridden her. Few have touched her. None who have harmed her live without nightmares.